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This family friendly event encourages Churchill County residents and people from surrounding communities to support the military.

War Comes Home: The Legacy is part of Cal Humanities’ current “War Comes Home” initiative, a thematic program designed to promote greater understanding of veterans and explore how war shapes a community. 

Four authors will speak on successive Wednesdays at 6 p.m. at the Churchill County Museum. Copies of their books will also be on sale.

The Springs Wings Festival returned this year after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 with bird watchers celebrating Nevada’s wetlands and the migratory birds that enjoy them.

Looking back at his military career, retiring Naval Air Station Fallon commander Capt. Evan Morrison said time has passed quickly since he took the oath to serve his country for the past 36 years.

Whole milk produced by Fallon-based Sand Hill Dairy on Wednesday was voluntarily recalled due to inadequate pasteurization.

Brig. Gen. Michael S. Peyerl, a 1991 graduate of Churchill County School and the University of Nevada, Reno was promoted Friday at the Army Aviation Support Facility north of Reno to become the state’s newest brigadier general in the Nevada National Guard.

Both Chief Petty Officer Joshua Sawyer, an air traffic controller at Naval Air Station Fallon, and Major League Hall of Fame player George Brett have one thing in common.

After two weeks of operations the Bureau of Land Management this week said it had finished its wild horse roundup effort in the Desatoya Herd Management area 77 miles east of Fallon.

Five Nevada projects are included in an $8 million investment in community infrastructure announced Thursday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.